State governments, following the ruling sought to avoid arbitrarily and capriciously imposing the death penalty by making the death penalty mandatory for certain offenses and establishing separate procedures for determining guilt and passing sentence.

What effect did the enclosure acts have on people’s working lives? a. changes brought about by the acts prevented large farmers from taking lands from smaller farmers. b. small farmers could no longer work on common lands and had to move to cities for work. c. peasants started working on enclosed lands and soon became wealthy because of higher wages. d. landowners forced peasants to build roads and bridges as part of the new enclosure laws.